Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 hours ago

Does it really matter what the machines "think" if they steal water and other resources from poor and vulnerable communities on a scale that makes Nestlé jealous?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see the irony is lost on you.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I guess a proper margarita wasn't green enough?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's like picking fights with strangers to manage your anger.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

That also sounds a lot like the kind of comments that Reddit (and Lemmy, and really any social network with votes) grooms for if you prefer up votes to arguing with pedants and trolls. Eventually all your left with are boring overqualified comments or inflammatory comments when the mob rules and you are striving/solving for the most popular/engaging answer. It's like conversational least squares analysis.

I wonder where the LLM trolls are? Maybe they are just so subtle, we haven't noticed them. Maybe LLMs aren't hallucinating answers, so much as they and trolling us. And here is where I qualify my answer in an attempt to quell the fools that might think anything I've said here implies that LLMs are anything close to sapient.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 13 points 5 days ago

Occam's razor doesn't apply because a flat earth is an exceedingly complex and irregular explanation for the even the most basic naked eye astronomical observations we can make.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

It only does this for things (usually municipal or government related) with a well defined, continuous, and singluar boundary. Search for nearby Lake Buena Vista, City of Orlando, or Orange County and Google Earth behaves exactly that way. But Disney's land holdings are likely not completely contiguous.

Logically most people would want to see the boundary of all the Disney things when they search for Disney World, but that's also not a real region with a well defined simple boundary Google can show and so it doesn't. Google Earth can represent points (or geolocated 3D buildings that are essentially points), lines (like roads), polygons, and elevation. In fact, you can force Google to do this by collecting the pins of various locations into a list. When you select the list, Google zooms to the level that shows them all. But Google Maps would be the tool to search for "all the Disney properties" or "all the burrito places near me" to get quick and made to order lists like this, Google Earth simply isn't built to to that.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

So you're new to reading maps? Is that the joke? Because the resort is the collection of all the various parks. Magic Kingdom is just to the north, Epcot is off to the east a bit, Hollywood Studios (now a part of Disney) is to the southeast, just south of Epcot, Blizzard Beach is mostly south and a little west, Animal Kingdom is south west, the Disney Golf courses are northwest. This point is basically the centeroid of all of those places because none of them are Disney World alone, they are only Disney World in the collective. It's not like Disneyland, which is a single park in the middle of town. Yes, they built in a swamp. What you've zoomed into is undeveloped land that I'm pretty sure Disney owns.

So, yes, that is Disney world, but I wouldn't send you a closeup of my nipple if you asked for a selfie.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plugs, connectors, and cables often break, corrode, get vandalized, etc. The physical connections on most of the electronic devices I've owned have been the first thing to fail. The wireless connections and wireless charging has NEVER been something that I've ever had to worry about physically breaking. I'd wage that infrastructure maintenance is going to cost much more in the long run than the cost of inefficiency introduced by wireless charging.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's fucking amazing. I love it. I want games like that for real now (they say, knowing full well that historically games made from movie and TV IP have been largely awful, alas):

  • Asteroids, but with Star Wars ships.
  • Galaga, but you fly voyager through Borg space, trans warp conduits, etc. Occasionally you pick up a clone or alternate timeline Voyager to fight along side you.
  • Space invaders I think would also be a good with a Starship Troopers skin and bugs lobbing rocks at your bases, could also be good in the style of Scorched Earth (or Worms Armageddon).
  • An Apple II style text only adventure game in Deep Space Nine.
  • A farming/trading/city sim on Babylon 5.
  • Civilization, but it's Babylon 5, Star Trek, or Star Wars, Dune, etc.
  • Old school 2.5D Zelda adventure game, but it's Firefly or The Expanse.
  • A Mario Bros. game but it's Farscape.
  • Mario kart, also Farscape.
  • Leisure Suit Larry in the style of Lexx.
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

It's because the precision is overstated in the conversion to imperial. If they're going to convert units they could at least give the correct significant digits. It should have read (if one insists on not just leaving it in metric):

  • Operational altitude: nearly 1 mile (1.5km)
  • Weight: Under 1 ton (imperial or metric. Take your pick, it hardly matter.)
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

NJ won't even let them pump gas.

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